Japan Sendai No.2 reactor is back online Oct. 14, 2015 - Updated 23:11 UTC-4
A nuclear reactor in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, has gone back online, the second such restart under tougher post-Fukushima regulations.
Kyushu Electric Power Company turned on the No.2 reactor at its Sendai plant in on Thursday morning. Reactor 1 at the same plant went back online in August.
Plant workers began removing the reactor's 32 control rods at 10:30 AM. It is expected to take about 12 hours to achieve a sustained nuclear chain reaction.
The operator plans to start generating and transmitting electricity on Wednesday next week and resume commercial operation in mid-November.
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